About

(they/them)

Fawn Penn is an artist and organizer working in Chicago. Fawn co-founded The Digs Chicago, a non-profit community ceramics studio in West Town. In 2023, Fawn made the Forbes 30 Under 30 Local list and in 2024 founded Old Friends, a contemporary art gallery in Rosco VIllage.

Fawn is a 2020 recipient of  the Center for Craft Windgate-Lamar Fellowship and graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA in Ceramics in 2020.